While dramatizations like Defiance and Inglorious Basterds have come out of Hollywood, there is a true story that urgently needs to be told. The Jewish Partisans documentary will tell it, revealing a new lens, an alternative portal through which to view and explore the Holocaust. This film will tell the story of those courageous Jewish fighters who, despite unimaginable odds, fought back fiercely against Hitler’s war machine.

In Their Own Voices

Interviews with the last living Partisans will be the centerpiece of this film. By also using personal photographs, letters, journals, rare archival film footage, historic war records, photographs, and artifacts shared with the filmmakers from Partisans’ personal collections, the documentarians will weave together many strands to tell this layered story that shatters the myth of Jewish passivity. The film will illuminate the many ways in which Jews resisted the Nazis -- and will celebrate the soulful bravery, cleverness, and leadership, of the Partisans.

“Our history must not contain only tragedy. We cannot allow that. It must also have heroic struggles, self-defense, war, even death with honor."

Shalom Yoran

Jewish Partisan

Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, Cannes, and Peabody Award-Winning Filmmakers

Julia Mintz, Dan Sturman, Tricia Reidy, along with a distinguished board of advisors brings a depth of experience and a passion to the subject that will ensure an outstanding and historically accurate documentary.

“A partisan, by definition, is a fighter who sabotages an occupying army. The Jewish partisans waged guerrilla warfare against the Nazis, but much more importantly, they defied the extermination of their people, their culture, and their religion, fighting to preserve the memory of their past and the possibility of their future.”

Elie Wiesel

"Far too often, and for too long, the story of Jews who resisted the Nazis has been lost within the larger re-telling of the history of the Nazi’s efforts to exterminate European Jews... later generations deserve to know this history."

Alexander B. Rossino, PhD

Historian, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

"This...issue has taken on greater importance because young people today must learn to distinguish between resistance fighters and terrorists. There is an absolute moral distinction between them.... I only chose to get involved with one or two outside projects, but I am most enthusiastic about this one because it is truly important."

Michael Berenbaum, PhD

President, The Berenbaum Group Author of The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust Chief Historical Consultant—The Last Days, Academy Award Winner Professor of Jewish Studies, The American Jewish University Former Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

"I believe that your film will play an important role in Holocaust education. It will serve as a terrific teaching tool about responses to genocide. It will also tell a story largely absent from the archives. The story of Jewish Partisans simply must be told. I look forward to working with you on this fascinating documentary."